THE STANDARD PIPE MARKET

摘要

In last month’s issue, we implied thatshipments in standard pipe appeared to beon track to reach 2 million tons. This nowseems less possible. It is true that we aredealing with licenses and estimates forNovember which may change, but anyimprovement will not likely be enough. Theyear-end decline, which we expected, is ontrack to be steeper than we thought despiteimprovements in construction spending.